Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us About Women's LivesThe first book to explore the role of hair in women's lives and what it reveals about their identities, intimate relationships, and work lives |
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... sometimes seems as if our hair both defines us and offers us a key for improving our lives . As a result , all of us sooner or later obsess about our hair . We agonize over how to style it and whether to color it , measuring ourselves ...
... sometimes shave their own heads to signal their empathy . Because of its remarkable malleability , hair is uniquely suited for conveying symbolic meanings . Unlike our noses , for example , which we can alter only through surgery , we ...
... sometimes keep a lock of hair as a remembrance from a child's first haircut , a lover traveling far away , or a loved one who has died . ( This includes , these days , deceased family pets ; I keep a lock of my first dog's hair in my ...
... sometimes paid by those who failed to meet their judges' standards. When rules for covering women's hair are less absolute, as among Orthodox Jews, how a woman covers her hair is used to judge her character; many Orthodox Jews consider ...
... sometimes endure harassment from those who label them lesbians, and black women with dreadlocks or multiple braids sometimes face job discrimination. Perhaps most important, to be fashionable, women's hair must suggest that we devote ...
Contents
WOMENS HAIR TODAY | |
THREE Ponytails and Purple Mohawks | |
FOUR What We Do for Love | |
FIVE Paychecks and Power Haircuts | |
SIX Bald Truths | |
SEVEN At the Salon | |
EIGHT Ill Dye Until I Die | |
NINE No More Bad Hair Days | |
Bibliography | |
Acknowledgments | |
Other editions - View all
Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives Rose Weitz Limited preview - 2004 |
Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives Rose Weitz No preview available - 2004 |
Rapunzel's Daughters: What Women's Hair Tells Us about Women's Lives Rose Weitz No preview available - 2005 |